What's with the leg?

supposedly like an air brake...........but fashion really

 

Supposedly puts more weight over the rear wheel.

 

kinda dispels the myth that you need to put weight on the inside peg to turn the bike though doesn't it...

 

Try it when doing a low speed u turn and be very surprised, it looks daft but works! I don't ride at the level to try it on the road!

 

I thought that but the foot is back on the peg during the turn.

 

they put their foot back on the peg after they have turned in, watch pedrosa etc next time the gp is on, they lock themselves on with the outside leg, its the only way you can get your upper body so low. if you weight the inside peg you push your body back up and end up crossed up over the bike.

once i learned that it utterly transformed my track riding

 

I tried it at Aragon the 1st time I went. I found it very useful (for making people laugh) into turn 1

 

Sorry Matt, it puts more on the front, taking it off the rear as the rider isnt on the peg. Its claimed to double as an air brake, but it also makes the rider a little wider going into the corners, reducing the space for a rider to dive down the inside. For us mortals, its all BS :smile:

 

Mmmmm, different to what I was told by a well known rider.

 

I sometimes do it into slower turns, but only becauses it makes it easier to get my foot/knee back in the right place. Funny it makes you feel like you are going slower...or maybe I am !

 

As, I suspect it is for the pros...

 

its actually to stretch their plums after so much heavy braking, normally they'd just have a rummedge but taking the hand off the bars its likely to be problematic.

So there you go, Plum stretching

 

Time to Tweet a motogp rider then :biggrin::biggrin:

or

http://www.paddockchatter.com/2013/01/guest-blog-leg-dangle-analysis.html

 

Yeah as you've heard, supposidly an air brake and the extra weight of the leg is now wholey pushing on the seat, and thus rear end. I've tried it at all speeds and honestly, am not good enough to notice a real difference. And you've gotto get the gear right early in the braking zone. It must work, but if nothing else it makes you look like your fast so give it a go.

 

In Andy Ibbot's book it says, in an interview with Rossi, something along the lines of "I went into a corner too fast and felt it helped slow me down somehow - then everyone else latched onto it".

 

I thought it was a way of getting farts out of ya leathers. :biggrin:

 

At my age it helps with the cramp.

 

I do it staggering home from the pub.